New Model Army - Charge Lyrics
Our history speaks in thunderFrom a thousand village hallsIn blood and sweat and sacrificeIn honoring every hallSo the forces gathered against the thornA-piercing in their sideThe brave new world is beckoningSo the olden world must dieIn the offices of the cityAt all the tables of oak and powerThe snares are laid and baitedFor the approaching of the hourA hundred justificationsAnd the presses are ready to rollThe gateways to the nationThey are firmly under controlCHORUS:On on on, cried the leaders at the backWe went gallopping down theBlackened hillsAnd into the gaping trapThe bridges are burnt behind usAnd there's waiting guns aheadInto the valley of deathRode the brave hundredsWell we called for reinforcementsFrom the friends that we had knownBut this is the 1980sAnd we were on our ownWe never felt like heroesOr martyrs to a causeJust battleweary soldiersIn a bloody civil warCHORUS:On on on, cried the leaders at the backThe massacre now is overAnd the order new enshrinedWhile a quarter of the nationAre abandoned far behindTheir leaders offer the cliche wordsSo righteous in defeatBut noone needs moralityWhen there isn't enough to eatThe unity bond is brokenAnd the loyalty songs are fakeI'll screw my only brotherFor even a glimpsy at a piece of the cakeWe only cry in private nowBehind the shuttered glassWhen we think of the charge of this brigadeThe severing of the pastCHORUS:On on on, cried the leaders at the back=======================================================================
